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Titolo: | Tearing the veil : essays on femininity / / edited by Susan Lipshitz |
Pubblicazione: | Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (169 p.) |
Disciplina: | 301.41/2 |
301.412 | |
305.42 | |
Soggetto topico: | Women - Psychology |
Women - Social conditions | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Altri autori: | LipshitzSusan |
Note generali: | First published in 1978 by Routledge & Kegan Paul. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Tearing The Veil Essays on femininity; Copyright; Tearing the VeilEssays on femininity; Copyright; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part One Sexuality and the Body; Chapter 1The Mother and the Hospital: An unfortunate fit between the woman's internal world and some hospital practices; Chapter 2The Witch and Her Devils: An exploration of the relationship between femininity and illness; Chapter 3The Whore in Peru: The splitting of women into good and bad and the isolation of the prostitute; Part TwoRepresentations of Women; Chapter 4Tess: the Making of a Pure Woman |
Chapter 5The City's Achievements: The patriotic Amazonomachy and ancient AthensChapter 6The Woman-Power: Religious heresy and feminism in early English socialism; Index | |
Sommario/riassunto: | This a collection of essays about women, by women, which examine the production of femininity within a patriarchal society. The essays show that characteristics generally considered to be 'feminine' are in fact cultural constructions within a patriarchal order. The patriarchal culture is taken by us to be a system of meanings, as well as power relations, which pervades our view of women at both a conscious and an unconscious level.The symbolism of the rituals, myths, art works and polemics examined in the essays is related to the ways women are psychically constructed and constrained |
Titolo autorizzato: | Tearing the veil |
ISBN: | 0-203-08484-5 |
1-283-84607-1 | |
1-136-19434-7 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910462673103321 |
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